Printer&#39;s border.



No. 831,182. PATENTED SEPT. 18, 1906.

' W. D. PALMER.

PRINTER/S BORDER.

APPLIOATION FILED JAN. 31, 1906.

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PATENT OFFICE.

WARREN DWIGHT PALMER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y

PRINTERS BORDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 18, 1906.

Application filed January 31, 1906- Serial No. 298.760.

I To atll'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WARREN DWIGHT PAL- MER, a citizen of the United States, residing in the borough of Brooklyn, in the city and county of New York, State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement Relating to Printers Borders, of which the following is a specification.

The invention provides for holding completely continuous encircling rules.

I will describe particularly rectangular and circular forms; but there may be other forms, as elliptical or star shaped or various irregular shapes. There is always a difficulty in making perfect joints in such bordering and properly holding and releasing the rules and types or other printing devices inclosed.

I have discovered that a continuous border may be made of brass or other suitable material of the thickness ofa double or single rule or of any other ordinary thickness with any desired form of face in one piece having the angles, if there are any, made absolutely continuous and to have the printing devices inside locked and unlocked by the ordinary means. My invention is based thereon. The same quoins and furniture and the same provisions for ti htening thereby which confine and release the types outside may serve also by my invention to confine and release the types inside. v

' The following is a description of what I consider the best means of carrying out the invention.

The accompanying drawings form a part of this specification;

Figure 1 is a vertical section. Fig. 2 is a side view of a member which I term an anchor, and Fig. 3 is an edge view of an ordinary space. Fig. 4 is a plan view of the entire form on a smaller scale. view of a portion corresponding to Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a horizontal section on the line 6 6 in Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is a corresponding section of the slide ready to be inserted. Fig. 8 is a perspective of the rectangular border standing alone. The next three figures are outlines indicating successive stages .in the operation of insertin the slide. Fig. 9 shows the slidewith'thedong rabbet enga ed, but standing obliquely. Fig. 10 shows t e same after the slide has been moved endwise also pressed against the inclosed matter. Fig. 1 1 shows the same after it has been moved endwise to complete the engagement. The remaining figures show modifications. Fig. 12

Fig. 5 is an end is an end view corresponding to Fig. 5. Fig. 13 is a plan view of the furniture exterior to the rectangular border. Fig. 14 is a slide for the long side, showing two windows.

Similar letters and-marks of reference indicate like parts in all the figures where they appear.

A is the bed of a press, and B represents printing devices, as types or cuts, or both, properly arranged to produce the required effect inthe printing.

0 represents quadrats, often termed quads, specially provided for this work, having less than the ordinary height, only sufficient to afford reliable support for the inclosed types and to receive and transmit external pressure from the inclosing compressing devices in locking up.

D is a continuous rule shown as circular. It is of just sufficient height to rest on the upper ends of the quads and make the printingsurface on the upper edge of this ring exactly type-high. The ring D is formed with a number of windows (horizontal apertures d) at about the mid-height.

E represents what I will term anchors,

thin pieces of brass or other suitable material little less than space-high, each presenting a horizontal locking-arm E at its upper end.

M is an ordinary chase, N ordinary furniture, and O ordinary quoins.

In composing the matter care is taken to so arrange any printing devices which are to appear outside of the circular ring D that there remains a clear space having more width than the ring, so that the latter may be applied at a later stage and the locking and unlocking may allow the supporting-quads and the en aging anchors to move a little in the acts of ocking and unlocking the forms.

The horizontal arms or ridges E on the several anchors need not be long. They must be sufficiently shallow to each enter a window (1 and press downward with gentle force by its lower edge on the lower edge of the window.

It is essential that the ring D shall be held down to its bearing on the quads below without any rattling and also that the friction shall not be so great as to prevent the quads O and the anchors E E from moving radially toward and from the center of the ring D to allow all the motion ever required in ordinary locking and unlocking.

The quads C and the printing matter F in the cases where printing is also to be effected ICC outside of the ring D are so arranged as to make a form of an ordinary rectangular: outline inclosed in an ordinary rectangular: chase M and compressed from outside b furniture N and by quoins O.

G G are the long sides, and H H the shore; ones, of a body forming a continuous rule .eX- I tending quite around, so as to Ipresent and print a complete oblong rectang e. Each ofl the ends H has a liberal aperture h, extending a large portion of distance across the end, which aperture I will term a window. Each long side G has a corresponding window. I have shown two. There may be two or a greater number of such windows in each of the sides. They perform an important function in allowing a horizontal pressure applied from without to be felt by the types, quads, or other printing matter within. The inner face of each short side H is excavated adjacent to each end of each window h, forming pockets h- I is a separately-formed piece, which I term a slide,- because the sliding is an important function. Itsv width is a little less than that of the window it. Its ends are reduced in thickness on the outer side, as cated by the rabbets i ande the reduction '2 being the longest. This piece may be in,- troduced and held in position temporarily before the rectangle G H is placed m po,sition; but I give the preference to applying the rectangle, whichI will term this fours ided form of the continuous rule, first, and applying the slide I afterwardf The movemerits for thus applying the slide after the ine teri'or matterisin place are first to insert the end having the long rabbet 01 in the window as' nearly as practicable in line with the part G and sliding it endwise until the, rabbeted art 2' is received in the proper pocket h hen this movement has been carried to the proper extent, the other end of the slidev I, having the short rabbet t will be in such po-Q Sition that the may by a pressure-of the finger or of any suitable instrument be pressed inward, slightly compressing the printing material inside and bringing the slide into such position that its short rabbet can catch. Now an endwise sliding movement of the slide in the opposite direction to the first. draws the long rabbet partly out of its engagement and engagesthe short rabbet i with the pocket h, and the introduction of this slide is completed. I

If there are, as shown, two windows in a side, the slides I must be thinned also, each at its mid-length, to allow for the material of G which lies between its windows. The bridge, if such it may be called, between the adjacent windows 9 is thinned by removing some of the metal on the outer side, as will be understood, to allow for moremotion. in, the locking.

adapted to engage in the corresponding pockets 'g 9 Each has a short rabbet y" and a long rabbet j The inner faces of the end H are correspondingly pocketed by thinning at the points h and b and the slides J are in- -troduced in the same manner as the slides I,

.already described.

It will be understood that the slides should -be thicker than the body G and H; but I will suggest means below for remedying the difficulty if there is too little thickness of the i e h en r th e 9 5 ach slide ou be ridged vertically or otherwise 'roughedto provide a good hold for giving the endwise movements, The whole quantity of type, j& c., within the rectangle G H should be judiciously determined, so that asthe lockn i f cte y tighten ng the q ih in .eempreesieri Qf the ihelosed ma ter by t inward movement of theslides I and J Will b6 arr d by ha in taken up al h slack on the matter inclosed within the rectangle the pr ure f th furniture '0 1. h gen ral 'efX- ri r f the par s G II wil ha e taken 11 all the sle k uts d he et so tha all'wi l he held N N ar pieeee Of furnitu e of the ordi he y ght pre s d inward a drel h d ht wil hr o dinary m an in us b ing p ssed inward o ffect he l king f the f rm n relaxed and a lowed to. mov ou wa d with or thou assistanc from th er erat'or'wli n i b e m e d sirab e to un ock he brin' tol m v h ype or make any he s there 1 h- I h me Pr -eed hwrd th m-new 1 Presses with it nne a e' again he outer th e of ide- I or Iwhiehlie'sw th ni n i doing so it forces the slide inward toward the center of the form and imparts to, thedevices B th s m pressure h ch obta ns ou si ?Wh th urn ur s pr sse inward; h form not only outsidebut inside of thering Modifications may be made without de,-. parting from the principle or sacrificing the advantages of the. invention.

Parts of the invention may be used with: 5 out the whole. I can use thering D and the provisions for holding it by the. aidof itswin-v i dows d without the rectangle,orI can use the i rectangle G H and the proyisions for hold ng l the. whole of the matter interior thereto by E the aid of its Windows 9, and h on two. or more; Esi Without e r hg I pref r the Wh le used together, as shown.

Th may be; y ne ide and n end.

i r ngeme may be preferable n m st ases. l The receSSesQ Pockets toreceivethe ends. 0t the slides may be, omitted, the types within; r qu i g tQbemQ T -m l t esedl y t e-fi r e f applied in inserting the slide. the ige;

Two corresponding slides J. are provided,

e e rh r d et y be on any ordinary or 'suitablemanner when the iwin owpr i e ith li es, m king he; other side and t e other, end solid. Such alt-H The metal below each window may be reduced or such metal may be omitted entirely. The metal at the top or printing face can by such modification be made deeper and better able to bear the force received in the acts of printing. Such modification is shown in Fig. 12. It may be expedient where the arts G and H are of type-metal or other wear material.

In most cases Where the slides are not sufficiently thick the inner faces of the furniture may be thicker by pasteboard or leads applied in the positions opposite the window. Fig. 13 shows such a modification, N being the thin material pasted or nailed on the furniture l.

I claim as my invention 1. A printers border having an upper edge or effective portion extended continuously to form a complete circuit, provided with apertures near the mid-height in combination with a chase and provisions for locking the material within such border by applying force from outside, the connection being effected by slides I having rabbeted ends adapted to be introduced from outside and to be engaged and liberated by endwise movements, all substantially as herein specified.

2. A printers border having an upper edge or efiective portion extended continuously to form a complete circuit, provided with aper tures near the mid-height in combination with a chase and provisions for locking the material within such' border by applying force from outside, the connection being e1- fected by anchors E, adapted to be inserted between the bodies of shallow parts as low quads 0, outside, and having each an arm E arranged to extend inward through an aperture and hold the rule down, all substantially as herein specified.

Signed at New York city, in the county and State of New York, this 27th day of J an uary, A. D. 1906.

WARREN DWIGHT PALMER.

Witnesses:

HUGH GILLEN, W. P. BEACH. 

